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Released
1969 · FILM

Brandstifter

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Written by
Runtime
65 min
Language
DE
Crime

Synopsis

Anka, a student involved in the extra-parliamentary opposition, becomes disillusioned with what she sees as meaningless discussions. No longer believing that words alone can bring about change, she decides to take militant action. To protest the Vietnam War, she plants a bomb in a department store in Cologne, aiming to provoke public debate.

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Principal cast & crew: 15

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Marianne KatschShot by Robert Van AckerenDesigned by Peter Wandrey

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  • The Arsonistsen

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